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Legally binding e-signatures, transparent pricing, and no hidden fees — E-Sign offers a smarter alternative to Docusign for your business.
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Simple e-signatures without proper verification can be challenged in court. E-Sign ensures every signature is secure and legally compliant, so your documents hold up when it matters most.
With E-Sign, the price you see is the price you pay, no hidden fees, overages, or bait-and-switch renewals. We’re a cost-effective Docusign alternative with transparent pricing that grows with your business.
Incorporating a new digital solution into your workflow can require some technical help. E-Sign provides live support from real humans based locally in the UK, 5 days a week, for all customers.
Security and compliance are essential when handling personal data. E-Sign stores all data in the UK, helping organisations stay GDPR-compliant and protect sensitive information with confidence.
Plan | E-Sign Business | Docusign |
---|---|---|
Number of envelopes | 10 p/m per user | |
Price per envelope | £3.30 | |
Legally binding e-signature | No – doesn’t meet specific security and ID verification eIDAS requirements for legal validity | |
Real time audit trial | Yes | |
Reporting | Yes | |
E-Signing Features | ||
Bulk Send | Yes | |
Payment Gateway | Yes | |
Collaboration Tools | Yes | |
Document Prep | ||
Drag & Drop Fields | Yes | |
Create Reusable Templates | Yes | |
Pre-built Template Library | No | |
Form Creation | Yes | |
Custom Email Branding | No | |
Support | ||
Email Support | Yes | |
Chat Support | No | |
Phone | No |
The terms simple, advanced, and qualified electronic signatures come from the e-signature regulation eIDAS, which applies to the use of digital signatures in the EU and UK.
Simple e-signatures are the main type of signature that Docusign provides as standard across most of their plans. This type of signature does not follow any additional security or identity verification measures, so an act as basic as ticking a checkbox or signing off an email can count as a simple signature. It is this lack of security that means simple e-signatures are not legally binding.
Advanced e-signatures meet specific criteria set out in eIDAS that ensure the signature is legally binding with tamper-proof evidence and a full audit trail. This confirms the signer is who they say they are and proves their intent to agree to the contents of the document.
Qualified e-signatures are the most secure type of signature as established in eIDAS. They are typically best suited to highly regulated industries such as banking and finance. As well as meeting the requirements for advanced signatures, qualified signatures have to meet additional criteria in order to be issued with certification. The identity verification process for these types of signatures is multi-step, using both two-factor authentication and encrypted keys.
Knowing what type of e-signature your business is using is essential to ensure that your signed documents are compliant and legally binding. E-Sign provides advanced e-signatures as standard across all plans.
Docusign offers simple e-signatures across all plans and only provides advanced e-signatures for enterprise customers at a significantly higher cost in comparison to E-Sign.
Simple e-signatures may not be compliant with specific industry requirements, such as those in the highly regulated financial and healthcare sectors. For example, the NHS requires that data be stored in the UK, and Docusign does not have UK data storage, so therefore, you would not be compliant if using Docusign.
E-Sign is always compliant with all relevant regulations across various industries, with secure advanced e-signatures being provided as standard and our data being stored in state-of-the-art UK-based data centres.
In addition to secure and legally binding advanced e-signatures, E-Sign has several key features that distinguish our product from Docusign, including:
E-Sign is a popular electronic signature platform across several industries, including healthcare, government, education, finance, and more. Customers across the UK are benefitting from the impressive features E-Sign provides, including multiple NHS trusts, Oxford University, Mid Devon District Council, and many more. We meet global security standards and help organisations maintain compliance with the necessary requirements for their industry.